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L.> WAACS WT ENGUH MAILING EDITION aCuMS VOLUME XXXIII - NO. 36 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29th, 1942 BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS DENATURED ALCOHOL KILLS NINE Ushers Convention Closes Successful Session In Oxford Negro Troops In Europe To Get WAAC Help Army AnnoiUKes Plan To Send Negro WAACs To EngbmiKsdosed London New SCT?ice) JM^ny pltiw to 9end guuny '■ 196gr9 to £d||^^ to‘ per- such M cir and leeretaFial verk alM to provide «ompanioiuiiip for Oie thojjsnndl} of Nofi\o troops h^re Lieutj 0en Dwjg^ . provide mander of American forces in the Kurop^aq theatre of operatioiiB, anftonneed early this week. presence of Negro soidiet^ in Kngland, iwher« only a few Ne- groda have beeii before thi* tirnr, has caused complications that Q«ner^I Eisenhower discuMel frankly at a press conference* Sho, emp})asized that > “ we ^ are giv/tti; Ne^o-troops, equal status in tlte military , fibld.” Some of the Kng- lish, - moreover, ■ have *eci!pte.l them^socially on the sfme 4)8913 n$i other American f^hting men. General Eisenhower expltitued that Negroes were here because they comprised about 10 per cgnt' of the United States population aiul he believed that all segtnents should be represented- on the fronts. In addition he said thnt Negroes were performing easen- tinl duties. They have howevv’, been without the companionslil:) of other Negroes; The residents of smaller English towns where they are stationed have eptevtairi («d theip in homes and have eitend od various sorts of hospitality. Frankly, recogniaing the pro blem, the Army is attempting to den] with it on ft sensible itnd practical basis, the general stiess- ed. In the larger cities, like Lon don, j where in the nature of things there is less home en':er- tainment of soldiers, Negroes on leave wander disconsolately, one of them remarking; “There’s »o hot music and none of our girls.” ' Other soldiers also complain of the lack of swing music. ■ Mrs. Mary h. Lee,of Burlins?- ton who was crowned Queen of the North Carolina Interdenom inational Ushers Association in Oxford at its Annual - session last Saturday evening. Mrs. Jjee is; president of the Ebenezer Christian Church usher board of her^city. Harlem Families Being Overcharged For Food Stuffs Pitt County Far^ Agent Says Negroes L^yal Greenville — The thriving and energetic farmers of Pitt County, "The Best Tobacco Market in tlie State,” are 100 per cent beliind our national defense program wns the response of County Agert D. p. Dupree to a representative of the CAROLINA TIMES todpy. The conference was held in the farm officials office. His opinion was shared by Mrs. A. S. Cape- ■ hnrt Pitt County 'ijome demon stration agent. Both expressed the Continued on Page t)ight Slkeston Mob Attempts To Lynch Ministtr Siikestou, Mo. — One lynching victim this year has not quenched the blood-thirsty mob in this town. Because the Rev. J. B. Ro-s of St. JjQuis preached against the lynching of Cleo Wright which took place here in January, !.e was hounded to the Frisco rafK roaff station, and! saved from, the mob only because the condactor locked him in the men’s washroosA of the train. Rev. Ross, a clergyman of thj CME church, and president of the NAACP branch organized n«>re immediately after the lynching 23, ,eftme juina day, August 18, and preach»d a sermon denouncing the lynchin?. Early Wednesday the mob, learn ing that he had “dared” to speai out, chased him to the station^ He narrowly missed nhar ing the fate of Cleo Wright by MJarding the train just ahead of the pack. Members of the mob followed him into the train and pounded on the door of the waih- room until the conductor persna>1‘ ed them' to leave. ^ , The St. Louis NAACP has call ed upon Governor Forrest Dolin'll of Missouri to take jmmcdi.‘»ttf action Recently a federal grand jury investigating Cleo Wrii^ht’s lynching issued a statement in which they deplored the orira.-*, but found no basis for federal pro secution, and returned to indiet- tJients, although members of that lynching gang were walking the streets every days and are kiiwn to the entire populace. ARMY TILOT TAKES BRIDE 1h , >Yes, cwn'tbc new-Army pilots being tiirn^ out at the Tuskiyve Army Flying School , fal} iq Igve and get married! Second Lieutc.i- ant Chai'les H. Dc'Bow, 35, who ■Was one of the first, class to j^Pt wings at this School, was mari‘fi*'l one day last week to Miss Gc”r trude Carter of Tuskegee. De- Bow’s hom« prior to his entrance into the Army was at 843 B )ule- vard Wace, IiHliana;poIis, Indiana. The ceremoney was performed oy Post Chaplain Douglass T. D. Uobinson, in the chapel in the presence of a few close fripnds. A classmate arid fellow officer, Lieutenant Mac 11088, was best man, while Mrs. Fay Robinson was brideSsmaid.- The new bridegroom will ’'in- tinued his duties as an instruc tor in flying at the air base. New York — Proof that Har lem families are being systeina'.i- cally overcharged for4he io«d they buy, and that price ce'iir;Ts on food set by the Office of Trice Administration are being violated is contained in a comparative s'lr- vcy of retail food prices juit re leased in ‘ pamphlet form by the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. .JdV'm.df‘b;St'NAAa.ti OXPORD7A»^r24 - Whal luly, Leon Henderson, director of 'was ^he most suc- the OPA, has heen asked to tt,n-1 eessful annual session of the sider steps to roll' back prices in' North Carolina Interdeuoinina- LARGEST DELEGATION IN HISTORY ATTENDS USHERS^ MEETING BOOTLEG LIQUOR TAKES GRUESOME TOLL OF ASHEVILLE REVELERS La. Teachers Win Equal Salary Fight NewOi'leafls, — B€«;rf:nTiijf with _the t'onilr)^school year Ni'gro teachers here will get salary rais es amounting to one-half the dif- ierence between theTr former ^nl- aries and those of white teache-s. By September 194.'1 they will hnve full equalization. These are the provisions in the tieeree, which will be signed at au early date according to Tbui^^ofj® Mar.shall, NAACP special counsel. The New Orleans teachers pre viously turi'ed down a prop^ial for e«i«ali>!aion over a five renr period. Local attorney in the ease wns A. P. Tureaud of this citv. areas such as Harlem to an equit able level. The Association is convinced, it stated this week, that llu* ■barging of excessive prices n'ld e.xjdoitation of a disadvantugpd section of the population are to be founi in almost every urbin community in the country. It .as ■'nstructed its branches through sat the country to make similar veys and report the results'to local OPA offices. i Called ‘‘Food Costs MOIlFi In Harlem,” the study shows that evfiry dollar spent on food !iy a housewife, she pays six cents more than housewives in bther sectioi s, where the income level is com parable, are charged. It r^exeals that the same pro ducts Harlemites get for the Iggli* er price they pay are inferior to those sold in another eeononvcaPy Please Turn To Page Eight tional Ushers Association, closed here Sunday afternoon follow ing an address delivered by Dr. A. Ileninburg of the Ngrth Carolina Colege for Negroes, and the parting talk delivered to tlie delegates and visitom-by^ L. E. Austin, president of the organization. The delegation to the.conven tion this year exceeded in num bers by far any that has ever attended the annual session. In addition there were many visi tors in attendance who came from all parts of the state. Of special interest w’as the public session Friday evening held in the First Baptist church of which the Kev. G. W. Wat kins is pastor. Welcome address es were delivered on ^is occa- sioon by Mayor Thomas Jordan, Rev. H. S. Davis, principal of Mary Potter School. Response to the addresses was delivered by the president of . the association. Mayor Jordan who is quite a young man to be the Mayor of a thriving and going little city such as Oxford, impressed • his audience with his slncerety and interest in the development of all the citizens of the city bjij the entire delegation w?S treat ed to a banquet in the dining room of the orphanage. As a means of showing their appreci ation for the banquet the dele gation presented the orphanage with a gift of $50. President Austin announced whieli he is theJiead - The election of officers was held Saturday afternoon result ed in two new additions being aded to the roster, S, M. Deas ojf Fayetteville was elected to tile Board of Directors to suc ceed Mrs. E. Mclllwain of Salis bury whose term on the Board had expired. Ambrose Evans of Fayetteville was elected Ser geant at Arms to succeed J. Wiley Thompson, of Goldsboro and W. N. Ellis, First Sergeant at Arras was re-elected. On Saturday evening at the Oxford Orphanage the Annual Oratorical Contest was held.Im^ ‘mediately following the contest — state=widr“*‘Osford Orphanage Day” on the second Sunday in March at which time a drive to raise funds for the institution will be launched. The amount raised will be presented to the Orphanage at the Mid-Year ses sion Siinday following Easter. The 1943 Annual session will be held in Greensboro and the Mid-Year session will be held in Fayetteville as voted at the convention, Sunday morning the delegates and visiting ushers formed a line of march in front of the colored graded school and mar ched to the First Baptist Church Continued oirTa^ B%ht at the banquet that the associ ation voted to stage an annual rnnnp«Tiy^ strnmn, Pn Kerotci^t Over 3,000 Negroes To Receive Merit Badges For Service . Wilmington — More than i5,000 Negroes in the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wiliuing- ton are scheuled to receive L.ibo* Merit 'badges for meritorious pro duction effort, the U. S. Maritime Commission revealed this week. The North Carolina Shipbuild ing Company is one of ten firm? designated by the Board of A- wards of the Maritime Commis sion to receive the “M” Burgee- Pennant, the Victory Fleet and Merit Badges for outstandiiis; production performance. In addition to the award of the M” pennant to the plant, each, worker engaged in Maritime Commission work will be given a Labor Merit badge. This letter award is the Commission’s re cognition of workers for meri torious production effort. Other plants receiving the p- wards including Koppers Com pany, Baltimore, Md.; Combnstioa Engineering Company, Chattan ooga, Tenn.; Babock and Wilcorr, Bsrberton, Ohio; Globe Ameriean Corporation, Kokomo, Ind.; Hop.?- man Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa.: ^National Malleable Steel Castings r W. H. DiLvenport, has his duties as supervising prim ipal of the Greenville, North I'aroHna public schools. He succeeds the late Prof. C. M. Eppes. Mr. Daveu port having taught in this sei.tion for more than fourteen years his gained the warm admiration an-1 respect of the member of In^th races. The schools have been put in first class order for opeaini; Monday August 1. The educator who recelvetl training at Virginia Union Uni versity Richmond, Va., and Hamp ton Institute* Hampton, Vs., sa.s he is grateful for the high honor the citizens oT Greenville J;ave reposed in him and will work n»rd to justify their confidence. Asheville, N. C. (S'pe*i»l to fh» TIMES) — The ninth victim of poison ali'hohol was claimed by ioras wneu -Moore, ■‘one- of a-grooj|» af 4-;«|h4 Negroes and one white man, wia the last to .'uecumbs as the rvsuit of drinking the fluid .sol«j to l'»« 1 liiude iliiams, 43, of this eity. Three of the men died Huudty, five MonLiy, and one Tu«klay. Others who *re believed te h»»# dntnk some of the poison ar^ -.i- ther in Mission hospital here ill at their home. Among thos-3 .a the hospital is Williams who is -te selling Uie poison alcohol. He will possibly h« for manslaughter and sol ;:ii: alcohol without lieense if he re- coverers from the effects of the deadly liqTtid. Those dead are Rosa W.tlker, alls Gaston^-^V'ylvester Earle, CIir« Lee Williams, Ruth Jackson, Dewey Splawn, ’onIey Wells, Sam Compton, and Simpson Moore who was the la.st to succiuQh. Physicians report that no other persons are expected to die from the effects of the alcohol unless there is a fresh outbreak. Rora Walker who was the las tto die is said to have purchased her alcohol at a paint store in the uptoim sei'tion of the city. Aicording to police the alcohnt drunk by the victims was used aS a paintsolv ent, and is mSBufae- ■'tnred under a trade nam« Greenville Tobacco Market Expects Banner Season Manufacturing Company, PittJ burgh. Pa.; Fier and Stowell Company, Milwaukee, and the Wisconsin and American Hoist and Derrick Company, St. Paul Minn. SALUTfi I THe Carolina Times will salute theciti^ zens of Rocky Mount in its Sept* 6 edition. It will be chucked full of local pictures and news stories. (ireenville — Taesdiy, Augu't 22, ij^arkm the begiuniuir of Greenville’s 52nd tobaccq selliris season. It was way back ondec on September 23, 1891, when tHe warehousemen of Greenville sold their f jst load of fhie-enred 'hi- baceo for the producer.'Approxi mately 25,000 pounds of Tobacco, then an experimental crop in Eastem Carolina, Wlkii Sold on Ins^ first opening day, and the marl-et ended the sea^son some time durintf the next spring with a total o ' a- hoiit 22:'),0tM) pounds to its cndit. While 225,000 jMunds is no more than a normal day’s porehas® ft>r any one of the five sets of bucrs on the Greenville market toiat, at that time it waS a sizaible mount of tobacco and it repre- ^sented the greater portion of ihe crop grown witjiin Greenville’s immediate territory. It has been a long time since September, 1H;11, and all things have undergone changes, but none a more miracul ous change than the Oreenville market. Starting »t seateh wl!¥ one little w&rehoc^ of 7,200 sq. ft., which* is about the size of the leaf rooms of sOme of the pre'^.Tit day warehouses in Greenville. market has expanded nnti! 1ola3p* there is^ more than 2,006^009^ ft. of floor space devoted to to bacco. - *^=^ 5 That first year’s record of 225. t)Ot) pounds jumped rapidly in*® ^ the million' pqainds fif(Qre and hw more than 40^000300 ly 80,000,000 ponnds eonstitcte % season’s sales for the ( irket. rearing the past SB yeavft nearly one billion, two fifty milKon pooads ave bc«B 44li cfe (1,^0,000) m figtur Afanibit believable and comparable io gits, to some of tbe vast wsr propria t ions beingr mit^de bj trress almost weekly. P(w this baeco the flreenTill* men have paid oat quarter billion dollars. While the growth rf as a tobaeeo market bat more raptl tb«n man; kets in state, it bM4|t^ luppeiei eoiMr ml
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